Saturday, December 17, 2005

Feliz Navidad

Wow! It's been too long since I updated everyone on the happenings in our life! We have returned to Brownsville/Matamoros for Christmas, and to help with the Christmas fiesta for the mustard seed program. We just had it today....It was terribly cold, but otherwise a very successful Day!

We have had a busy week preparing for this big event...



We made over 200 candy bags on Tuesday night. Some help from Phil & Karen's church arrived, so we made an assembly line and had a lot of fun!










Then we had to wrap over 60 gifts. Good thing Janet showed up to help, or I think we'd still be wrapping! She was a big help!







Well, all the hard work paid off because the fiesta today was great! The prepared a program for their parents, showing them all the things they are learning through the Mustard Seed Program.

(By the way, I'm not biased, but the little guy in the middle row with the blue jacket is the cutest! He's Urias - Our sponsor child!)



We served a great meal for the families. All the food was provided by a church in Brownsville. We had about 200 people there.

They really enjoyed it!


















We distributed a whole bunch of presents!!

I think that everyone had a really great time today!!

1 comment:

The Rowley Family said...

so, that's where you were! we tried calling- but there was no answer! Don't worry, we'll try again soon.
sounds like you guys had a lot of fun today, i'm glad everything went well. we miss you guys lots and hope that you have a great Christmas.
Dios te bendigas,
Laura